Grimsel-Strassenbild, Schoenheiten der Alpenstrasse (Grimsel Pass Streetscape from Beauties of the Alpine Passes)
Cuno Amiet, Swiss, 1868 - 1961
1927
Lithograph on paper
73/300
Image: 8 3/16 × 11 13/16 in. (20.8 × 30 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 16 9/16 in. (32.4 × 42 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.952.2.2
Geography
Place Made: Switzerland, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, on stone, lower right: CA / 27; signed, in graphite, lower left margin: C. Amiet; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: 73/300; reverse, stamped, in black ink, lower left: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DEPT. OF ART AND / ARCHAEOLOGY; reverse, printed, on sticker, lower center: GRIMSEL. STRASSENBILD / ORIGIN ALLITHOGRAPHIE VON C. AMIET / Rus der Sammlung Schweizerischer Graphik: / "Schonheiten der Alpenstrassen" / Herausgegben von der Eidg. Postverwaltung
Provenance
Charles D. Childs, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1952.
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